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(No Model.)

J. 0. FAUGHENDER.

10E PLANE.

No. 430,009. Patented June 10, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JABE CURRY FAUGHENDER, OF PIEDMONT, ALABAMA, ASSIGNCR TO FAUGH- ENDER & CRUSOE, OF SAME PLACE.

ICE-PLANE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,009, dated June 10, 1890.

7 Application filed June 15, 1889. Serial No. 314,333. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: tool upon the throat-plate, the screw-bolt or Be it known that I, J ABE CURRY FAUGHEN- and winged thumb-nut I) being employed in DER, of Piedmont, in the county of Calhoun the usual manner to hold the tool in place. and State of Alabama, have invented a new While it is not imperative that the cuttingand Improved Ice-Plane, of which the followbit E be furnished with an adjustable cap F,

ing is a full, clear, and exact description. it is considered that such a feature, if em- The object of my invention is to produce a ployed, will render the operation of shaving simple, cheap, compact, and convenient im the ice more satisfactory, as there may be a plement with which ice in large blocks may closer adjustment effected,and consequently to be operated upon to shave therefrom proper finer shavings produced, when the plane-bit is quantities of finely-reduced ice,'which may capped, as shown in the drawings; hence it be required in the composition of mixed iced is preferred to so construct the device. drinks of various kinds. Upon'each side of the base-plate A the up- The invention consists in the construction rightwallsBareformedintegralwithsaidbase- 15 and arrangement of parts hereinafter deplate. These walls extend upwardlyaproper scribed and claimed. height and are parallel with each other up to Reference is to be had to the accompanying a point g, (see Fig. 3,) from which point the drawings, forming a part of this specification, vertical walls are sloped inwardly, thus proin which similar letters of reference indicate ducing inclined inner surfaces on the walls B.

20 corresponding parts in all the figures. The outer faces of the walls B may be made Figure 1 represents a side elevation, partly perpendicular throughout their entire height, in section, of the device, showing interior conas represented in the drawings, or to save mastruction of its parts. Fig. 2 is a rear elevaterial it is evident the outer faces of each wall tion of the implement; and Fig. 3 is a transfrom the point 9 upward may be made to in- 2 5 verse sectional elevation of the device, taken cline inwardly at the same angle as the inner 011 the line so :10, Fig. 1. faces of the walls, and in this way avoid thick- The stock of the ice-plane is preferably ening up the walls attheir upper edges. This constructed of metal, although hard wood or latter plan of construction is represented by other material may be utilized in its manudotted lines in Fig. 3. From the position 0 facture. As will be observed, the form of the given the walls B on each side of the planeplane-stock does not differ essentially in the stock a'retaining-shoe is formed for the conportion which retains the cutting-tool from venient introduction and retention of the box an ordinary plane used for smoothing wooden G. The box just named is preferably consurfaces. In Fig. 1 the shape of the stock is structed of sheet metal, which may be tinned 5 displayed. It consists, essentially, of a baseor galvanized iron, so as to prevent rusting of 8 5 plate A of sufficient thickness to insure stathe same. In form it consists of a rectangubility. On the top surface of the base-plate lar chamber having one end. open, the side A the handle C is secured. This may be of walls being cut to slope'or incline, as shown in wood or metal. Preferably the latter-named in Fig. 1, so as to fit neatly against the adja- 4o material is employed. Integral with the hancent face of the throat-plateD when the box G dle C, or affixed thereto at its upper end, the is inserted in place. The side walls of the box inclined throat-plateDis extendeddiagonally G are inclined inwardly near their upper from the base-plate A, a transverse slot or edges, so as to give the box a conformation throatc being formed in the base-plate at the similar to that of the walls B and cause it to fit 5 foot and in front of the inclined throat-plate as a dovetail in the space afiorded between 5 D. A cutting bit or tool E, similar to an or the walls B.

dinary wood-plane bit, is placed against the A handle d is attached to theend wall of throat-plate D and secured adj ustably on it, the box G, as shown in Fig. 1, by which the the plate D and the tool E being slotted to' box may be manipulated to insert or remove 50 facilitate the adjustable attachment of the it from its position on the stock.

Several diiterent sizes of this implement may be made to render it effective in the shaving of different quantities of ice, as may be required. Usually a comparatively small, light, and neat device of the form herein shown and described will have suflicient capacity to produce the quantity of finely-reduced ice necessary for one or several glasses of iced drinks and ettect the reduction speedily. All the shaved ice passing upward through the throat-slot 0 will enter the box G, and from thence may be decanted into one or more goblets or drinking-glasses, as may be desired.

From the compact form and consequent easy handling of the implement hereinbefore described it is available for use upon alarge block of ice that is contained in a refrigerator-chamber, and thus avoid the waste of ice and delay incidental to the use of other devices that require the ice to be first broken into pieces before it can be operated upon by the machine.

The simplicity of construction, low cost of production, convenience in use, and manifest saving in consumption of ice are evident features of advantage pertaining to the withindescribed ice-plane.

Slight changes in form of the parts of this improved ice-plane may be made and not violate the spirit of my inventi0nas, for instance, the walls B may be made lower than shown in the drawing, or a modified form of sliding connection of the box G with the stock of the plane may be substituted, such as an ordinary tongue and groove; or the side walls B can be dispensed with and a tongue-andgroove connection of the box-bottom be provided. All these are equivalent means for holding the box G in sliding connection with the plane-stock in front of the cutting-bit E.

Hence I do not wish to limit the construction of the device to the exact forms shown.

In practice the front end of the base-plate will be slightly upturned or beveled on the under side to enable the plane to pass over the rough surface of the ice.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a plane having a transverse throat or slot through the base of its stock and the cutting-tool projecting downwardly therethrough, of a removable box on the upper side of the base open at its inner end and registering with the said slot in front of the cutting-tool to receive the shaved ice, substantially as set forth.

2. An ice-shaving plane consisting in the base A, having a transverse throat or slot therethrough, side walls extending up from the forward end of the base, a handle on the upper side of the rear end of the base, the inclined plate I), the cutting-tool resting against the said plate and extending at its cuttingedge downwardly through the said throat or slot, and the removable box between said side walls, substantially as set forth.

In an ice-plane, the combination, with a stock having a base-plate, a handle, a throatplate, a throat-slot. and walls which are adapted to hold in place an ice-receiving box and permit its removal endwisc, of the stock of an ice-cutting tool and an ice-receiving box which is removably secured upon the plane-stock in position to receive the ice shaved off by the cutting-bit, substantially as set forth.

JABE CURRY FAUGHENDER. Witnesses:

E. D. MCCLELEN, T. M. SHARP. 

